3.63 Switch II
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This problem will give you a chance to reverse engineer a switch
statement from disassembled machine code. In the following procedure, the body of the switch
statement has been omitted:
long switch_prob(long x, long n) {
long result = x;
switch(n) {
/* Fill in code here */
}
return result;
}
Below shows the disassembled machine code for the procedure.
The jump table resides in a different area of memory. We can see from the indirect jump on line 5 that the jump table begins at address 0x4006f8. Using the GDB debugger, we can examine the six 8-byte words of memory comprising the jump table with the command x/6gx 0x4006f8. GDB prints the following:
(gdb) x/6gx 0x4006f8
0x4006f8: 0x00000000004005a1 0x00000000004005c3
0x400708: 0x00000000004005a1 0x00000000004005aa
0x400718: 0x00000000004005b2 0x00000000004005bf
Fill in the body of the switch
statement with C code that have the same behavior as the machine code.
0000000000400590 <switch_prob>:
400590: 48 83 ee 3c sub $0x3c,%rsi
400594: 48 83 fe 05 cmp $0x5,%rsi
400598: 77 29 ja 4005c3 <switch_prob+0x33>
40059a: ff 24 f5 f8 06 40 00 jmpq *0x4006f8(,%rsi,8)
4005a1: 48 8d 04 fd 00 00 00 lea 0x0(,%rdi,8),%rax
4005a8: 00
4005a9: c3 retq
4005aa: 48 89 f8 mov %rdi,%rax
4005ad: 48 c1 f8 03 sar $0x3,%rax
4005b1: c3 retq
4005b2: 48 89 f8 mov %rdi,%rax
4005b5: 48 c1 e0 04 shl $0x4,%rax
4005b9: 48 29 f8 sub %rdi,%rax
4005bc: 48 89 c7 mov %rax,%rdi
4005bf: 48 0f af ff imul %rdi,%rdi
4005c3: 48 8d 47 4b lea 0x4b(%rdi),%rax
4005c7: c3 retq
Code:
long switch_prob(long x, long n) {
long result = x;
switch(n) {
case 60:
case 62:
result = 8 * x;
break;
case 63:
result = x >> 3;
break;
case 64:
x = 15 * x;
case 65:
x *= x;
default:
result = 75 + x;
}
return result;
}
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